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Who is Jayant Chaudhary?

Jayant Chaudhary is the grandson of India’s fifth Prime Minister, Chaudhary Charan Singh and son of former Union minister Ajit Singh. Currently, he is the vice president of the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD).  
 
Jayant has been critical of the 1894 land acquisition law and the large-scale land acquisitions in UP. He has been a part of the agitations to protest the unfair acquisition of land in the state and in the Mathura, Noida, Hathras, Greater Noida, Agra and Aligarh districts.
 
Life and education
 
The Indian politician was born on December 27, 1978, in Dallas, USA. His father Ajit Singh had served as Union minister and was a multiple-time parliamentarian. 
 
Jayant Chaudhary, a former Lok Sabha MP, graduated from Shri Venkateswara College of the Delhi University and in 2002 received a master's degree in accounting and finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Jayant started heading the RLD after the death of Ajit Singh in 2021 due to Covid-19 infection.
 
Jayant is married to Charu Singh and the couple has two children.
 
Career
 
Jayant Chaudhary was a member of the Parliament from Mathura in Uttar Pradesh in the 15th Lok Sabha. The RLD leader introduced a Private Member’s Bill on Land Acquisition in the Lok Sabha on August 5, 2011. 
 
He also proposed a Private Member’s bill to amend the Right To Information Act to increase the applicability of the act to include PPPs (Public-Private Partnerships) for greater transparency.
 
Chaudhary contested from Mathura in the 2014 general elections, however, he lost to BJP candidate Hema Malini.
 
During his first term in the Lok Sabha, the RLD chief was a member of various Parliamentary Committees; the Standing Committees on Commerce, Agriculture and Finance, the Consultative Committee on Finance, the Committee on Ethics, and the Committee on Government Assurances.
 
He has been a member of the General Board of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). Chaudhary has also co-chaired the FICCI Indo-British Forum of Parliamentarians and was a member of the Indo-Venezuela Parliamentary Friendship Group. 
 
Moreover, Jayant Chaudhary serves as the Chairman of the Kisan Trust founded by former PM, late Chaudhary Charan Singh in 1978.

Latest Updates on Jayant Chaudhary

A day after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra entered Uttar Pradesh, none of the prominent opposition leaders joined the Yatra on Wednesday.

Updated On: 04 Jan 2023 | 1:16 PM IST

Samajwadi Party national secretary and state spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary said, "The SP president is busy with his programmes and there is no likelihood of his joining the yatra"

Updated On: 27 Dec 2022 | 9:10 AM IST

Accompanied by Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Chaudhary reached Uttar Pradesh Assembly premises in the morning to file his nomination

Updated On: 30 May 2022 | 12:52 PM IST

Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Jayant Chaudhary will be the joint candidate of the Samajwadi Party and RLD for the Rajya Sabha elections

Updated On: 26 May 2022 | 12:20 PM IST

The RLD, which had contested the state polls in alliance with the Samajwadi Party, had fielded candidates on 33 seats and won eight of them

Updated On: 14 Mar 2022 | 7:03 PM IST

Rashtriya Lok Dal president Jayant Chaudhary on Thursday said he respected the public opinion after his alliance with the Samajwadi Party lost the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls.

Updated On: 10 Mar 2022 | 11:02 PM IST

The battle for Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) president Jayant Chaudhary is almost over with the completion of the first two phases of polling in Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election 2022.

Updated On: 15 Feb 2022 | 3:21 PM IST

He said this while addressing a programme in favour of a party candidate in the Sadarpur area of Ghaziabad

Updated On: 09 Feb 2022 | 2:07 AM IST

BJP leader Amit Shah cautioned RLD president Jayant Chaudhary over his party's tie-up with SP, saying Akhilesh Yadav does not even listen to his father and uncle then how would he listen to him.

Updated On: 03 Feb 2022 | 11:14 PM IST

Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Jayant Chaudhary accused Union Home minister Amit Shah of consistently using "caste-based terminology" during his election campaign in western Uttar Pradesh.

Updated On: 31 Jan 2022 | 9:43 PM IST

The BJP says its government gives subsidised ration to 80 crore poor people in the country and that is their admission of India's growing poverty, confirmed by surveys worldwide, Akhilesh Yadav said

Updated On: 29 Jan 2022 | 8:25 PM IST

Akhilesh Yadav asked farmers to be wary of the BJP, saying the ruling party's government had withdrawn its controversial farm laws only for the sake of votes.

Updated On: 28 Jan 2022 | 9:18 PM IST

Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Jayant Chaudhary has chosen the "wrong home", Amit Shah said as he reached out to Jat leaders at a meeting

Updated On: 26 Jan 2022 | 9:45 PM IST

Chaudhary is ambitious, but is realistic enough to know his limitations

Updated On: 17 Jan 2022 | 6:08 AM IST

Yadav had earlier said that his party's alliance with the Rastriya Lok Dal is final and only sharing of seats is to be discussed

Updated On: 23 Nov 2021 | 7:07 PM IST

PM Modi must sack Union minister Ajay Mishra over the violence here which left eight people dead, Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Jayant Chaudhary demanded on Monday

Updated On: 05 Oct 2021 | 10:04 AM IST

Jayant Chaudhary was on Tuesday appointed as the new national president of the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), according to a party statement.

Updated On: 25 May 2021 | 2:05 PM IST

The national executive of the party will be meeting on Tuesday virtually to anoint Jayant as the new party president, after his father Chaudhary Ajit Singh who founded the RLD, died on May 6

Updated On: 25 May 2021 | 11:16 AM IST

RLD national vice president Jayant Chaudhary on Saturday alleged that the government's "efforts" to crush the farmers' movement has only strengthened their unity

Updated On: 30 Jan 2021 | 11:08 PM IST

The Rashtriya Lok Dal will contest three Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh as part of an alliance with the SP and the BSP

Updated On: 30 Mar 2019 | 9:32 PM IST